georgelaz

I have a feeling he's gunna get into some top form. If Kone get get his 2014 form back he'd be AEKs best player hands down and possibly best player in the league.

kone with an outside box cracker for AEK. AEK is looking really good this season, might win the league and go deep in europa

yeah world cup tries to make it more of a mix rather than simply the best teams out there. If it was the best 32 teams I'd wager 25 would be from europe 5 from south america and the last 2 spots up for grabs. netherlands, italy, turkey, greece, wales should all be there. edit: that was knee jerk post 25 from europe might be on the high end lol.

skibbe's selections are not so bad when we everything is going correct. Ie his favourites are in form and no injuries. his ideal lineup with no injuries Mitroglou Staf Fortounis Donis Samaris Zeca Tzav Sokratis Manolas Toro Karnezis if we weren't plagued with injuries + out of forms it's a good lineup. It's when we got players out that he shits the bed. BUT if you look at our left flank. You can't tell me Fetfa LW and Holebas LB wouldn't have been a class higher than tzav/staf. That's really my only issue with his top game sheet. His second team s%$#! is atrocious but also remember we are a top heavy team.

Samaris, if he can get his form back, is on paper our best cdm. We really shouldn't be playing out of form players. I think one of the biggest sticking points to our NT past years as we can never get an 11 that's in form. euro campaign Mitro was out of form for most of it. this campaign fortounis, and samaris out of form for most of it. If anything, we should just play starts from the big 4 in the superleague rather than playing out of form players in the bigger leagues. eg) pelkas, kourbelis, bakakis what ever happened to petsos? lol kone hit the post for aek last play. bakasetas with a header goal http://superleaguegreece.novasports.gr/VideoId/48429/

siopis at cb? you mean cdm? siopis is like 5'4 lol

i remember when playing colombia the colombian players said that kone was the only player they feared... he was on some crazy form circa 2014. we might have gotten way further if he didn't get injured world cup... holebas speaks english quite well, surprised. watford is 8th in premier league and he's a key player. such a shame he's gone.

holebas is 33 and plays like he's 25. Wonder if him taking time off of football prolonged is shelf life or something... fetfa should be in the squad. imagine him and donis on the wings. we'd be dangerous. zeca and kourbelis dm right now i'm really feeling mitro Fetfa Fortounis Donis Kourbelis Zeca Holebas Sokratis Manolas Toro Karnezis Tachtsidis instead of Kourbelis when playing smaller teams. notable mentions gianniotas as bench winger mantalos as a CAM only Karelis when Mitro unavailable Kpaps if any of our 2 are injured Samaris if he gets his form back Staf the obvious option as we probably won't see holebas back Retsos wouldn't mind doing 3atb but we don't have the fullbacks Villafanez. Can play as a winger effectively even tho he's a 10 and he has a greek grandfather so he can do it up. the actual big black spot is RB when toro retires. Guess Bakakis is next best thing and AEK is doing great that season. Aek holding Milan 0-0 twice this season and leading the league. hopefully they can keep form cuz they field the most greek players out of the big four right now. torosidis had big praises for galanopoulos... anyone seen him play? worth a look? aek is gunna regularly be playing mantalos laz kone bakasetas galanopoulos klonaridis anestis bakakis

kone apparently looked good in europa coming on as a sub. don't let the 2-2 fool u. Aek nearly made it 4-2

pretty sure he was injured during that game too. Remember it was Glykos who started one of the game in the group stage... might have been wiser to keep with glykos as he played well. The poor man's Ryan gosling lol

unfortunately they're out of the picture and I think they were more raw talent than actual good training but I cant be sure. it's a shame because Ninis and Mitroglou had the best chemistry. Fortounis and Mitroglou do not.

mitroglou is a product of German academies. Donis is a product of Italian academies. the only thing greek academies have been able to produce is CB's. we have the talent but not the academies.

karelis as ss behind mitro would be cool or him n the left mitro on the right

euro 2020 lineup should be Mitro Fetfa Fortounis Donis Tachtsi Zeca Staf Manolas Sokratis Retsos Karnezis 1. fetfa is still only gunna be 27 and his contract with the arabs will be done and hopefully he can go play in europe 2. fortounis is our best CAM, I don't agree with the flak he's been getting and he's only 24. Mantalos is also quite good in this position if anything slot Fortounis to left were he can play good and Mantalos as CAM cuz mantalos sucks on the wing. Reminds me when people gave up on Mitro... this might be even worse. Let's not forget the kid almost single handedly decimated arsenal a year or two ago. 3. Retsos as RB will be solid and Donis up to will more than make up for his lack of attacking ability. So it's almost like we have 3 atb + a wing back in Staf. Toro will likely want to get 100 caps and if he's still good enough (right now I say he is all for it) good thing for skibbe is he benched tzav for once but Tziolis has gotta go man or at least just reserves.

our low ranking is a piece of why it's been harder to qualify. post euro 2004 we were often pot 1. success builds upon success. it's harder t dig out of a hole so this campaign has been good from a digging out of a hole point of view...

we did have a midfield at one point. that was circa 2003-2005 zagorakis at bologna karagounis at inter katsouranis at benfica stelios at bolton (when they were a premier league regular) basinas at pao tsiartsas at athletico thats 6 high quality midfielders right there and they were always starting for their club. now we have players that aren't even starting for club Gianniotas = second division spain Fortounis = sometimes doesn't even start for oly Samaris = doesn't really start for Benfica anymore (was in top form 2 years ago getting a champions league MOM) Zeca = played out of position but otherwise solid. Staf = he's not a midfielder. Tziolis = plays in saudi arabia Tachtsi = isn't playing regular balla at oly still. Night and day difference. If our players actually get playing time at decent clubs we have a future though. 2nd place and a loss in the playoffs wasn't terrible. There's always a silver lining. Remember we didn't qualify for the world cup before the we won the euro either. We were very close to qualifying this time. Skibbe makes mistakes but if we don't get plagued with injuries I think we can even go through with him as when our players are in form and have few injuries he got results. He just sucks when it comes to improvisation when players are missing and he makes excuses rather than get creative.

the boo's were shameful from our fans... I think it was a bit of a tit for tat because the croats did it in zagreb but still... I expect better from us greeks.

manolas and torosidis are a class above our other options, that's for sure.

fifa truly screwed us with manolas ban. bakasetas sucks he's slow and doesn't make up for his pace with anything. although pelkas skied it he offers way more for us.

Samaris is same height as Tziolis and Tachtsidis is 2 inches taller... Tziolis in as a height thing is redicolous lol.

skibbe falls to the consistency bias way too often. he needs a baby revolution for us to have a chance to win this game. but he's not gunna do that.

wouldve made our lives easier if cracked a second away goal we had 4+ chances to do so croatia's defense looks shakey and we've seen greece somehow manage to play offensive football when their backs against the wall eg) vs. Ivory Coast / Costa Rica Mitroglou 20 Mitroglou 40 Laz 70 pame lol

so obvious. Zeca on the wing is wasted. he should have man marked modric and taken him out the game. Zeca is wasted on the wings. He's not creative nor a goal scorer. He's an engine and can man mark like a dog on meat.